The pending anti-disinformation bills confuse the symptoms with the disease. Instead of addressing the political, economic, and technological systems that manufacture and profit from coordinated information manipulation, they place the burden on individual expression and expand government...
Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Jose Melencio Nartatez Jr. must think the public is as blind as his subordinates when he said it was difficult to determine who were protesters and who were journalists in the July 22 violent dispersal in Pasay City. The police...
It is not an isolated incident but part of the continuing pattern of legal harassment that seeks to silence independent journalism through the misuse of the legal system
Altermidya raises concern over the proposed “Anti-Fake News and Digital Disinformation Act” or House Bill (HB) 2697, sponsored by presidential son Rep. Alexander “Sandro” Marcos, and backed by House Speaker Faustino “Bojie” Dy III. We believe that it is a...
Altermidya commemorates World Press Freedom Day amid grief and outrage. We condemn the killing and demand justice for our colleague, community journalist RJ Ledesma, and the rest of Negros 19. We also call for the freedom of community journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio,...
Altermidya Network mourns the killing of our colleague RJ Nichole Ledesma, writer and editor of Paghimutad‑Negros and regional coordinator of Altermidya in Negros Island.RJ was killed in a supposed military encounter in Barangay Salamanca, Toboso, Negros Occidental on...
On 23 March 2026, the judge is scheduled to decide on the defence’s motion for reconsideration of Frenchie Mae Cumpio’s conviction for the bogus “financing of terrorism,” along with a motion to reconsider her bail. A coalition of international and local press freedom...
We in the Altermidya Network welcome the statement issued by five UN Special Rapporteurs and independent experts of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) urging the provisional release of Filipino journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio...
On February 7, Frenchie Mae Cumpio, a community journalist from Leyte, marks her sixth year in detention—an incarceration that rights and media groups strongly believe stems from her work as a journalist. As a radio broadcaster, Frenchie reported on the lives of...
The decision is a grave injustice and is a serious peril to the already dire state of press freedom and free expression in the Philippines.
Tomorrow, January 22, our colleague Frenchie Mae Cumpio will face the promulgation of the two trumped-up charges against her at the Tacloban regional trial court. The Altermidya Network, together with all advocates of press freedom and free expression, demands the...
January 14, 2025 – A coalition of international and local press freedom organisations is urging President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to immediately and unconditionally release prominent journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio, whose promulgation of judgment in the illegal firearms...
The international coalition of press freedom NGOs welcomes thedecision of the Laoang Regional Trial Court Branch 21 to grant the motion to quash thebaseless murder charge filed against community journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio. Thisruling marks a significant step...